TEACHING SCIENCE

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Declared in Elementary Education BSE or Elementary Education and Special Education BSE Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Explore your own identities (as people, as teachers, as scientists) and analyze the impact of those identities on how we see, understand, and interact with students Audience: Undergraduate 2. Question the idea that science is “objective” by investigating science teaching to identify oppression of non-white, non-male students Audience: Undergraduate 3. Develop instructional strategies and intuitions to elicit and build on student ideas in a way that redistributes who is seen as a “knower” of science Audience: Undergraduate 4. Design lessons and redesign curricular units based on research on best-practices in science teaching that will support the equitable learning Audience: Undergraduate 5. Reflect on science teaching practice in a way that supports both student learning and continued professional development Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Explore your own identities (as people, as teachers, as scientists) and analyze the impact of those identities on how we see, understand, and interact with students Audience: Undergraduate 2. Question the idea that science is “objective” by investigating science teaching to identify oppression of non-white, non-male students Audience: Undergraduate 3. Develop instructional strategies and intuitions to elicit and build on student ideas in a way that redistributes who is seen as a “knower” of science Audience: Undergraduate 4. Design lessons and redesign curricular units based on research on best-practices in science teaching that will support the equitable learning Audience: Undergraduate 5. Reflect on science teaching practice in a way that supports both student learning and continued professional development Audience: Undergraduate